Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Earlier in the week President Chiang Kai-shek left Honan where he had been directing operations against the People's Army (northern rebels, supposedly under the direction of Generals Feng Yu-hsiang and Yen Hsi-shan) for Nanking. Following the Soviet invasion of Manchuria came a second report: military leaders of all Chinese factions had ceased fighting, concluded a speedy truce to present a united front against the Russians...
When Photographer Steichen next saw Banker Morgan, he showed him prints of the two pictures. Banker Morgan liked the first, tense pose, ordered a dozen copies. The second, Photographer Steichen's favorite, showed the subject looming characteristically massive out of Rembrandtesque shadow. A trick of light made the chair arm look like a broad, naked knife in Banker Morgan's hand. Banker Morgan looked at this picture, tore it in shreds...
Back to his studio went Photographer Steichen, sorely nettled. He labored over the second plate until he got a fine, enlarged print. He showed it around. Everybody liked it. Belle da Costa Greene, able Morgan librarian, pronounced it the greatest portrait of her boss which she had ever seen. When she showed it to him, he declared he had never seen it before, authorized her to buy it. She made a bid of $5,000 to famed pioneer Photographer Alfred Stieglitz (TIME, Feb. 25), then editor of Camera Work, who owned the print. He refused. She then begged Photographer Steichen...
...feat the whole matter will promptly be forgotten. Needless to say, Legrange treads the ledge safely, guilty only of shielding a woman's guilt. The harrowing quality of the ledge scene fails to mitigate Playwright Paul Osborn's long, tedious stretches. This idle melodrama is the second presentation of the New York Theatre Assembly which, sponsored by wealthy, smart Manhattanites, exists to present "amusing plays, in an intimate theatre, before a selected audience." A Ledge follows an exceedingly short-lived comedy called Lolly (TIME...
...Smilovits, second violin, Sandor Roth, viola, Imre Hartman, 'cello. They played in the Budapest Royal Opera until the outbreak of the 1919 Revolution when they retired to a distant Hungarian village, devoted themselves for two years to the cult of chamber music. Now the Lener is one of the world's first string organizations. In Manhattan last fortnight its tender, lush playing of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven won noisy approval from the audience, superlatives from critics; made recent performances by the London String Quartet seem over-fastidious, bloodless by comparison. The Roth Quartet, however, also from Budapest, remains for most...